President-elect Donald Trump won the election by flipping Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin after President Biden won them in 2020. Looking at how Democratic counties voted explains how he did it.

Trump had also teased his second term would be “nasty a little bit at times, and maybe at the beginning in particular”. The mass deportation of illegal immigrants was pencilled in for day one. Records over the past 25 years show unified governments – where both chambers of the legislature are of the same party as the executive – sign a quarter more bills into law.